“THE WORLD IN 2024” is a wide-ranging annual special covering the most important paradigms of 2024, with key words raised by visionaries, entrepreneurs and great thinkers from around the world. Avi Loeb, who leads a project at Harvard University to search for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations, will focus on meteorites from outside the solar system and conduct large-scale research in the Pacific Ocean.
We tend to ignore the possibility that our neighbors live in the Milky Way. However, most stars formed billions of years before the sun. If we bet on the possibility of technological advances on billions of Earth-like planets, it is not surprising that at least one civilization in the last 10 billion years has had the ability to build spaceships. If such a civilization had spent $2 trillion annually on space exploration rather than military spending (as humans do), several times over the course of a century the Milky Way, including our Sun, would have been destroyed. It would have been possible to launch probes to all the stars.
The prevailing opinion among many scientists is that claiming the existence of an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization is “crazy” and that serious research is needed until “crazy evidence” is found. The idea is that it’s not worth it. The statement that there is no extraterrestrial life has become a self-fulfilling prophecy because scientists who think so have not started looking for evidence.
The answer to the paradox posed by physicist Enrico Fermi: “If it is probable that extraterrestrial life exists, why haven’t we encountered it?” “To find out if your neighbors are there, you can use a telescope or search your yard for things that have fallen off the street.”
The Galileo project, which I have directed for the past two years at Harvard University, has done just that. Details are summarized in eight peer-reviewed papers.
A mysterious celestial object entered the solar system
Astronomers have already discovered two objects outside our solar system that bear no resemblance to the asteroids, comets and meteorites we know. An example of this is the disk-like shape and gravity-defying acceleration of ‘Oumuamua, an interstellar object the size of a football field discovered in October 2017.
Indeed, the first recognized interstellar object fell to Earth in January 2014. The aim of future Project Galileo research in the Pacific Ocean is to determine whether this meteorite, IM1, is a relic of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. This 50 cm long object was thought to be an artifact because it has greater material strength than any of the 272 meteorites listed in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) catalog. an official letter sent by the United States Space Command to NASA on March 1, 2022, was officially recognized with a 99.999% probability that it originated outside the solar system.
News about our space neighbors can also come from the US government’s intelligence and defense agencies. They are tasked with identifying objects falling from the sky if an enemy nation launches drones, reconnaissance balloons or ballistic missiles. This means that government agencies may notice surprising evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in objects sent by extraterrestrial technological civilizations to our cosmic backyard.
My prediction is that in 2024 we will find indisputable evidence of technological artifacts from extraterrestrial civilizations. Such evidence could be discovered by Project Galileo or the US government. If this were to happen, I sincerely hope that President Biden includes this startling new fact in his 2024 State of the Union address.
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